57, High Street

HIGH STREET 1. 5227 (North Side) No 57 SO 8505 5/315 II 2. Mid C19 front to early-mid C17 building probably originally with gables to the street. Now 3 storeys, rendered with parapet. Concealed slate roof. 3 windows to 2nd floor, 2 + 2 to 1st floor (glazing bar sashes, with panelled shutters inside). Mid C19 tripartite shop front with central entrance to left of ground floor; 2 windows on right part of ground floor. Mid C19 railings with coped heads.

Return to left has irregular spaced C17 windows of 2 and 3 lights (part concealed by later additions) and a low single storey back-yard addition probably also of the late C17. Rear has 2 gables, one with mansard roof; windows C19, or late C18 including a tall arched stair window, plus a number of C17 windows (Stroud-type: rebated chamfer surround, chamfered mullions, drips). Cast-lead gutter head. Interior: Late C18 architraving to doors and windows, 2 late C18 fireplaces, one with fluted frieze; low late C18 stair with ramped rail and semi circular well. Front 1st floor room (east side) has spine beam with C17 plaster moulding on it. Part of the west attic has 2 plastered upper crucks.

Listing NGR: SO8517105218